It is sooo dry here, like 14% humidity dry. Your skin dries up, tea towels are bone dry, and brown sugar loses its moisture. I feel parched all the time, and feel like I can't drink enough water. The landscape itself is dry at the moment. Winter is the snow season, and there hasn't been any real snow since November. This snow is important as when it melts it feeds the rivers, and recharges the aquifers. Also, where we are living the bore water is gross; good for cleaning with, but not for drinking. So we need to buy 20L jugs of water. It is interesting to watch water consumption going in a more visible way. Like going camping and only having your jerry cans.
Water is something I think about in Australia, but not to the same extent. I always thought I lived in a dry part of the world (and it is); but having the ocean means that the humidity level is generally lovely, and you can desalinate the ocean to top up city water supplies. Not so in Alberta. What they've got is what they've got.
I find it crazy that they don't use more water efficient practices, being in such a dry part of the world. They use regular North American infrastructure, like the loos use more water than back home to flush, and often don't have a half flush feature.
Water, so important. I need a drink.
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